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It actually does quite well, with an overall score of 90 compared to Perl's 149

Yes, I also noticed this on the scriptometer. And one has to keep in mind that Lua is not even meant as a standalone language. It is intended to be fleshed out with customly defined C functions to provide additional functionality.

This comparison [iolanguage.com] made me stick to Lua. I was on the edge of dropping Inline::Lua again when things didn't work at all in the beginning. But then I saw that Lua appears to be quite performant for some tasks and so I gave it another try, luckily so.